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@espionageSA whistleblower uncovered.

Angelique Serrao, News24

2016-09-24 06:57

Johannesburg - The whistleblowers behind the Twitter handle @espionageSA, who leaked thousands of pages of information on the illegal spying, corruption and money laundering going on behind the scenes in the tobacco industry, have come out into the open.

Last month @espionageSA released documentation showing that a security company, FSS, contracted by British American Tobacco, was spying on competitors and who allegedly had police, metro police, and SARS officials on their payroll.

The leaks precipitated the Hawks demanding a warning statement from Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, and a book written by former SARS employees Johann van Loggerenberg and Adrian Lackay called Rogue: The inside story of SARS’s elite crime-busting unit.

They allege in the book that the narrative of the so-called “rogue unit” came about after the investigating unit got too close to organised crime, in particular the tobacco industry. In a way @espionageSA corroborated this, showing just how involved big tobacco was with law enforcement officials who were allegedly on its payroll.

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